in about an hour i'll be off on a bus to naga, bicol for a 1 day, 2-game tournament against ateneo de naga. talk about PAGURAN. we sleep overnight on the bus, which is supposedly RV-style complete with lazboy chairs, a kitchen, and a bathroom, play the whole day saturday, then leave saturday night and arrive sunday afternoon. 2nd sem starts on monday and boy am i gonna be dead tired. after beachbumming practically the whole sem break, im really not looking forward to going back to school. im fine just lazing around the house or bumming with the sembreak gang, thankyouverymuch. and not to mention my brain has completely shut down, meaning it'll take a while before it functions again properly. haha. aahhh i cant wait for christmas break!! montemar here i come. <3

today was quite random. i was sleeping very nicely when luigi woke me up and told me to get dressed for breakfast at pancake house. im not really a breakfast person, but i have been so out of all the kwento and chismis that i just had to go, and of course have pancake house's super yummy mango pancakes and vienna sausage(thanks to ding, its my new favorite!) so it was me ding luig yannick louis suman and vince for the breakfast club. we got so full so fast. then we watched school of scoundrels and it was actually pretty funny! not as sabaw as we all thought it would be..then i had to leave to pack. and i still havent! arggh. gotta go and fix up all the softball stuff. tata friends! i'll post pics when i get back, if im able to survive the weekend. adios.

That's the way this wheel keeps working now
You can't love too much, one part of it

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give return to me
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sometimes i forget how music can make me feel so light and fuzzy...when im in the right mood with the right people, and the right song plays on the radio, i can go from sad to happy, gloomy to ecstatic, and dismal to blissful. its magic. and thats exactly the feeling i got this week, with a goblet of red wine in my hand, the stars shining overhead, and the likes of john mayer and jack johnson keeping me company til the wee hours of the morning . it was all i needed to complete a beachbummed beach trip with a bunch of great friends and awesome sounds. take a peek at how we spent 2 nights drinking away and 3 days frisbee-ing and skimboarding. the pics speak for themselves:







how ironic it is that the day we get back from sunny fuego, it starts to POUR in good ol' alabang. i lavit. :p

the week was filled with surprises, some good and some bad, some fun and not-so-fun. it was a tiring weekend but nontheless quite productive. i finally went with my mommah to divisoria for the first time and seeing how people raved about it, im glad i went! what an experience. i went crazy with EVERYTHING. so many things to see and smell and hear. haha! its not really my kind of place, but everything is so cheap that you forget about where it may have come from and whatnot. the only thing is you really have to look hard to find stuff that are worth buying...the good ones arent usually displayed, so you really have to rummage under piles of THINGS to find what youre looking for. i actually bought a lot of stuff! im happy. :)

on friday was suman's small inuman at his house. it was the first day of sembreak for a lot of people so it was nice to let loose and just chill after exams. on saturday, we had 2 games, the first was at 8 at rosario and the second one at 2 in rizal memorial. really, nothing beats playing together with 12 of the best people in the wooorld. we chilled in ina's house in between games, and had fun watching antm season 7, and taking pictures with her funky nude ART. saturday night was the carpool party, but it was a kind of flop. it was still fun seeing everyone again! and nikko came to save me from boredom, so we hung around and made kwento til i had to go home. sunday was another random night, vince ding and i went to luigi's to hang out. carlo migi and nico u. followed, and we watched employee of the month. honestly, i dint expect it to be as funny as it was. we were laughing our heads off in the theater since it was just us and mayonnaise in the movie house. i cant wait to hit the beach again on wednesaday! i need a tan baaadly!
wow, this is a pretty useless entry, but anywayyyy, that was how my weekend went. adios. <3

yesterday i went to fuego with ding, yannick and luigi. it was such a spur of the moment thing...one second, ding tells me that they want to go to the beach, and the next second, we're on our way to yannick's house, fully equipped with coolers, a skimboard, frisbee, and towels. we left alabang pretty early, kinda TOO early for luigi, but we made it in good time and spent the whole day bumming, playing ulimate frisbee and getting lessons from luigi and yannick for skimboarding. we found the best beach where the sandbar is wide and shallow, and we played 2 on 2 frisbee.  we even had our own missions! yannick's mission for the day was to get tan/red. my mission was to learn how to skimboard. ding's mission was to NOT get so "black"(even if its the nice kind of dark!) and luigi..well, he dint really have a mission, except maybe to finally use his board in the REAL BEACH and not just in the grandstands! haha. and we also tried out ding's motorbikes. i LOVE ding's house, it has a "ship" motif and the view is just absolutely breathtaking since they have glass panels and windows everywhere for really great panoramic views of the ocean. it has such a beachy feeling! superrrr nice. what else...we headed back at around 7 and stopped over at dencio's tagaytay. i didnt expect it to be chilly, but it was soooo cold! perfect weather and dinner for the really hot day. the whole trip was spontaneous but it was fun not knowing what we were gonna do next or where we were gonna go. super chill and relaxing! sembreak's kickoff!  <3

                                                                                                                    

despite the horrendous calls, the overpowering UST mob, that coach in yellow who sheepishly smiled at the ref's, and the downpour that hit katipunan after the game...

THEY played so well. a hard-fought game.

kudos to the team for showing just the real meaning of HEART and SPIRIT.  and macky escalona who forever etched his name to ateneo basketball history.  one big fight!

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i wasnt actually planning on watching the game coz i was never really the avid basketball fan. sure, i know how to play, but high school PE is quite different from the real thing. besides, we had a team photo shoot at 3pm, so going to araneta was out of the question. when the shoot was cancelled, i didnt have anything to do til 6 30 since i was riding with carpool. so, we were going to watch the game  at justin's condo instead but then nikko luigi vince krissie and i decided to check UAO if they were selling tickets. they only had GA!!! ew. somehow, nikko got us 5 upper box tickets, and for last minute tickets, they were good enough already. so off to araneta we went, my first time to commute in the LRT! what an adventure!! it was a lot of fun riding with a bunch of other blue people. we met up with justin rhein melai tavu and pao, and i saw jo in the opposite end, a tiny speck in the huge crowd!!  i was so excited to see her, i jumped on my chair and waved at her with the balloons!

the game was exciting till the very last second. i cheered my heart out, lost my voice, and injured my leg while running across flooded katipunan, but it was all worth it. i've never seen any other team play with as much HEART and PASSION as they did.( to jo ina and cara: STILL, nothing compares to one team one fam! illam puso!! <3) the loss was humble and gracious; the win, well-deserved. oh well, there's always next year! 


JOANNA!! i love this pic! so intense ;)

ROADKILL.

heavy traffic. pedestrians looking on. policemen. a mangled, bloody, lifeless body. in the middle of c5. something i really don't want to ever see AGAIN.

that was the most traumatic, gruesome, and terrifying driving experience of my LIFE.

rest in peace to the one poor soul.

fil 11 is killing me.
math 11 is KILLING me.
dammit and 11's supposed to be my lucky number.

i have a critical paper for fil i didnt even know about thats due tom, a long test for math, midterms for math on monday, a quiz in lit on friday, a pre-lab due on friday, not to mention freakin-A TRAINING thats so killer right now!!! the weather is just not cooperating, and that blue eagle gym over there is an old and rotten place thats filled with cobwebs and mosquitos.

i need more breaks! theyre the only things that keep me from getting constant migranes and headaches. screw it, school is one BIG headache.

and to think i was so excited to be in ateneo. ahhh i hate hell week!

STRESS = stress = StReSs = STrESS = s.t.r.e.s.s. = s-t-r-e-s-s

whichever way you put it, im still not feeling any better.
i canNOT wait for the weekend.

2 more days, isabel!! brace yourself.